Last Updated: Monday, February 3, 2014, 04:25
Brazil`s branch of Amnesty International on Sunday held a rally in Rio to protest what it termed Russia`s "homophobia".
Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 08:50
Sochi, a city in Krasnodar Krai region of Russia, is located on the Black Sea coast near the border between Georgia/Abkhazia and Russia.
Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 08:40
Poland`s Kamil Stoch made it three wins for the season with success on Willingen`s large hill, the penultimate jump before the Sochi Olympics, on Saturday.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:43
Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe`s handlers on Friday denied he was in rehab for depression and alcohol abuse and said he instead entered hospital for shoulder surgery.
Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 15:31
Zach Parise, who won a silver medal at the 2010 Winter Games, was named captain of the US men`s ice hockey team for the Sochi Olympics on Friday.
Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:55
While Sochi`s Olympic venues are now among the most tightly guarded facilities in the world, the rest of this sprawling Black Sea resort looks more vulnerable.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 18:35
The victory at the Syed Modi International tournament in Lucknow helped London Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal to surge two places to reach the seventh position in the latest world badminton ranking, released in Kuala Lumpur here today.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 18:06
Russia has identified two suicide bombers responsible for attacks that killed 34 people in the city of Volgograd last month and arrested two suspected accomplices in violence-torn Dagestan province, officials said on Thursday.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 06:09
The US military has renewed an offer to help Russia with security at next month`s Olympic games in Sochi, the Pentagon said.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 17:25
In the third year of his third presidential term, Putin faces stringent international media scrutiny over the upcoming Sochi Games and its allied Paralympics.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 13:58
Analysts say the former Cold War rivals are unlikely to risk a full-blown confrontation over security in Sochi, the first Olympics held on Russian soil since the US-boycotted 1980 Moscow Games.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 18:56
After being chosen for the prestigious Padma Shri award, wheelchair tennis star Boniface Prabhu on Sunday hoped to get clearance from the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) to compete in the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
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